At 9:38 AM -0700 7/29/05, Alex Doyle wrote:
The context is that the dolls' cloth or leather bodies were filled with bran or sawdust. While I can get the sawdust, right at the moment I don't have the quanity I need for the several dolls I'm putting together in the next two weeks.
My experience making pincushions (ObCostume: surely these are a fashion accessory? <g>) has led me to prefer sifted sawdust over bran, for anything but the shortest-term use.
The reason being -- if bran has enough nourishment in it to be fed to horses, it also has enough nourishment in it to attract bugs. Having a couple of pincushions riddled with carpet-bettle holes was quite enough to convince me to use sawdust in the future.
Crumbled and finely sifted peat moss from the garden store works, too. -- ____________________________________________________________ O Chris Laning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
